Well we’ve had several freak rains and a couple of nasty sand storms. Plus we had a mini tornado that ripped off about a 10 foot by 20 foot section of shingles off of our roof and pelted them against the oven. Overall I have to say that the oven faired pretty well. During the sands storms and the tornado the oven was just beat and pelted with everything that wasn’t tied down but, most of the whitewash was intact.
I was honestly surprised at how little damage there really was. Most of the damage was from impacts and from the heavy flash rains we had. The damage was for the most part limited to the whitewash and a few spots where the whitewash came of and exposed the adobe. I think all of the damage can be repaired with fresh coats of whitewash. So I mixed up some new whitewash and applied a fresh coat.
There was a lot of cracks and chips from the weather so I think I’ll need several coats. I put on one coat today to just try and fill and bind down all of the chips and cracks. I’ll apply another coat tomorrow to fill some more and see what else I’ll need to do.
I know it took me a while to get to this since my last post but, between the weather and having to help move my in-laws this was the first chance I had to work on it. I’ll get some pictures on here after I get the next coat on tomorrow.
The good news about all of this is that the whitewash did it’s job and protected the adobe underneath. I was real happy to see that the whitewash applications have been worth it overall in both appearance and protection.